Hulu Hands Its Home Page Over to Reddit, Which Delivers Carl Sagan

Here’s a 100 percent confirmed, spin-free fact about Hulu: The video site has let Reddit program its homepage today.

Truth in advertising: This isn’t quite as exciting as I thought it might be, because Hulu isn’t really giving up its homepage. It’s just handing over a “featured” slot to the community news site with a …rabid user base.

Still, it’s pretty cool, especially if you like comedy with a nerdish bent, and/or Carl Sagan. The Redditors have voted for a selection of clips from shows like “Arrested Development,” “The Daily Show,” “Community” and “Mystery Science Theater.”

Most interesting is Reddit’s embrace of “Cosmos,” the PBS popular-science show from the 1980s, which features “Battlestar Galactica”-like special effects, a Vangelis synthesizer soundtrack and Sagan’s trippy/deep-thoughts delivery. Good for Laser Floyd and Neal Stephenson fans alike.